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government troops pushed into rebel-held neighborhoods in syria's central city of hoems yesterday. the death toll from violence across the country was at least 17 and the capital city of damascus gunmen assassinated an army general. there's been no claim of responsibility for that. iran yesterday marked the anniversary of its islamic revolution. speaking at a rally, president ahmadinejad promised that his nation will soon reveal some, in his words, very big, new nuclear achievements. and here in new york the phantom of the opera celebrated its 10,000th performance. the phantom opened on broadway in 1988. the show has now grossed $845 million. here's today's weather. a mass of cold air is covering everything east of the rockies. snow will fall around the great lakes and as far south as west texas. the week ahead will turn mild after a cold and rainy start. ♪ >> osgood: ahead, the life and >> osgood: as you've heard on the eve of tonight's grammy awards, singer whitney houston was found dead in beverly hills yesterday at the age of 48. the circumstances of her death are under inves
government troops pushed into rebel-held neighborhoods in syria's central city of hoems yesterday. the death toll from violence across the country was at least 17 and the capital city of damascus gunmen assassinated an army general. there's been no claim of responsibility for that. iran yesterday marked the anniversary of its islamic revolution. speaking at a rally, president ahmadinejad promised that his nation will soon reveal some, in his words, very big, new nuclear achievements. and here...
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. >> reporter: ohio's biggest city is named after him. so is a certain district. but does christopher columbus really deserve all this credit? >> he actually didn't discover north america. he never set foot in north america and never even knew it existed. he wasn't the first person to discover the american continent from europe. >> reporter: ahead on sunday morning, up close and personal with christopher columbus. >> osgood: the who is widely considered one of the world's great rock bands and its lead guitarist, pete townsend the giant of rock'n'roll. this morning anthony mason sits down with townsend for a rare interview. ♪ >> reporter: pete townsend's incendiary performances helped make the who rock aristocracy. did you enjoy smashing the guitars? >> it felt to me like an artistic act. >> reporter: now he looks back at the heights of the who and the depths of his controversial arrest. did you think at that moment that your reputation was effectively destroyed? >> yeah. reporter: pete townsend on who he is ahead on sunday morning. >> osgood: it's been said that
. >> reporter: ohio's biggest city is named after him. so is a certain district. but does christopher columbus really deserve all this credit? >> he actually didn't discover north america. he never set foot in north america and never even knew it existed. he wasn't the first person to discover the american continent from europe. >> reporter: ahead on sunday morning, up close and personal with christopher columbus. >> osgood: the who is widely considered one of the...
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. >> what could be more fun than exploring a city's food culture? let's say it's a self-interested mission driven by the desire to have fun and eat good food. >> osgood: coming up... there it is the pregnant lady. >> osgood: ... a perfect match? by sondre lerche ♪ " ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we know peanut butter and jelly are a perfect match. can the same be said about a peanut butter and pickle sandwich? there are secrets to perfect food pairing. martha teichner has been talking with the experts. >> we're having a little fun here with peas and carrots. >> reporter: peas and carrots, say it fast and it sounds like one word. >> peas and carrots, old friends that have been on many dates dressed up a little differently this time. >> reporter: new york city chef wiley loves those classic match-ups, even if his restaurant w.d.50 is all about turning them inside out and upsidedown. >> here we've taken little carrots that we blanched in carrot juice. we've rolled them in freeze-dried pea powder. we call this dish carrots but it's really carrots in peas. >> report
. >> what could be more fun than exploring a city's food culture? let's say it's a self-interested mission driven by the desire to have fun and eat good food. >> osgood: coming up... there it is the pregnant lady. >> osgood: ... a perfect match? by sondre lerche ♪ " ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we know peanut butter and jelly are a perfect match. can the same be said about a peanut butter and pickle sandwich? there are secrets to perfect food pairing. martha teichner has been...
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this morning, a car bombing was reported in the city of allepo. also this morning an american teacher was shot dead in yemen by two gunmen on a motor psyche. it's unclear why he was targeted or who the killers might be. the retired ohio auto worker who was convicted of war crimes as a guard at a nazi death camp during world war 2 has died in a nursing home in germany. he was 91. nasa yesterday released video of the northern lights taken from the international space station earlier in the year. there they are. here's the day's weather as the map shows depending on where you're standing today you will either soak in the sunshine or get soaked by the rain. in the days ahead winter will give way to spring and pretty soon april showers will come your way. coming up, the art of the video game. and the,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, it's an affliction that seems to resist the rejuvenating power of spring. depression is the subject of our cover story reported now by susan spencer of 48 hours. >> reporter: here's something compressing depressing. the centers for diseas
this morning, a car bombing was reported in the city of allepo. also this morning an american teacher was shot dead in yemen by two gunmen on a motor psyche. it's unclear why he was targeted or who the killers might be. the retired ohio auto worker who was convicted of war crimes as a guard at a nazi death camp during world war 2 has died in a nursing home in germany. he was 91. nasa yesterday released video of the northern lights taken from the international space station earlier in the year....
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this is in kansas city. this is kind of early on, '76. >> this picture really, i don't know, broke the world open for me. >> hi, how are you doing? thanks for coming down. >> reporter: his work, now collected in his book, rock scene, includes perhaps his most famous session with john lennon. where were these shot? >> john had an apartment on east 52nd street. he was still separated from yoko at the time in '74. >> reporter: gruen became lien non's personal photographer after the former beatle moved to morning. >> i used to wear a new york city t-shirt like this all the time. i had given john a shirt a year earlier. we were up on the roof with the skyline behind us. i said do you still have that shirt i gave you last year? we had no idea at the time it was going to become such a well known picture. >> reporter: this image is in just about every shop in new york city. >> it gets around. reporter: the shot is usually reproducedded without gruen's permission. we found it at a souvenir standby the ferry to the st
this is in kansas city. this is kind of early on, '76. >> this picture really, i don't know, broke the world open for me. >> hi, how are you doing? thanks for coming down. >> reporter: his work, now collected in his book, rock scene, includes perhaps his most famous session with john lennon. where were these shot? >> john had an apartment on east 52nd street. he was still separated from yoko at the time in '74. >> reporter: gruen became lien non's personal...
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the list of towns and cities we have come to associate with unthinkable violence expanded this past week to include another, aurora, colorado. we can't help but wonder what would make someone want to do something as violent as this shooter did. bill whitaker this morning will tell us more about the young man who allegedly opened fire in a crowded movie theatre. bob orr will have the latest on the administration of the shootings and barry petersen will remember those who died. lee cowan will take us to aurora for our sunday morning cover story. >> a shooting at century theaters. >> it was cold, it was calculated, and it was deadly. >> i'm so sorry for the other families. and all of the mend and women dead who didn't make it. >> even suspect's home was rigged with explosives to raise the death count even more. >> there are those who don't even want to speak the gunman's name preferring instead to speak of the victims. >> as we will later on sunday morning. >> we do have other more hopeful stories to tell you about this morning, including hot wheels from rita braver, all about kids stepping
the list of towns and cities we have come to associate with unthinkable violence expanded this past week to include another, aurora, colorado. we can't help but wonder what would make someone want to do something as violent as this shooter did. bill whitaker this morning will tell us more about the young man who allegedly opened fire in a crowded movie theatre. bob orr will have the latest on the administration of the shootings and barry petersen will remember those who died. lee cowan will...
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i'm just doing me. >> reporter: motor city's bad boy is actually from the suburbs. kid rock was born robert richy in middle class romeo, michigan, the son of a car dealer. early on, young bobby knew his future was in music. >> i was going to be successful at it. i didn't realize it would be this successful. but i thought i would hit a lick somewhere. >> reporter: that somewhere turned out to be one of the rougher sections of detroit. bobby richy left home and moved here as a teen to pursue his love of rap. his parents were not amused. at the same time they didn't disown you. >> i think one of the most funniest times in the world is they come in the 'hood. i'm selling drugs to make money to buy records and working at a car wash. i'm standing with my buddies on one of the porches. my dad came by and picked me up for an ontario donist appointment. >> reporter: what did that do for your street cred? >> nothing. reporter: still he kept at it. bobby richy became known as "that white kid who rocks" and took the words kid and rock as his stage name. after a decade in the de
i'm just doing me. >> reporter: motor city's bad boy is actually from the suburbs. kid rock was born robert richy in middle class romeo, michigan, the son of a car dealer. early on, young bobby knew his future was in music. >> i was going to be successful at it. i didn't realize it would be this successful. but i thought i would hit a lick somewhere. >> reporter: that somewhere turned out to be one of the rougher sections of detroit. bobby richy left home and moved here as a...
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steven lamb is an internist in new york city. he describes the hangover as a perfect cocktail of dehydration, low blood sugar, sleep disruption, and even mental instability. >> people have to appreciate you're dealing with an extremely toxic substance. >> reporter: to dr. lamb, hangovers are no joke. but try telling that to hollywood. in the nutty professor, jerry lewis was assault by his hangover headache. and 2009 the hangover was a box office smash. >> do not go to the bathroom. >> calm down. >> there's a tiger in the bathroom. >> what's going on? >> reporter: but let's face it. in the real world, a hangover is nothing to laugh at. and mankind has been under its influence since noah and the great flood. >> he planted the vines and got very drunk. passed out naked in the tent. the next thing he has such a hangover that he condemns all of his son's children to slavery. that's a tough hangover. >> reporter: "modern drunkard magazine"'s editor. he notes that the hangover like the devil has been known by many names throughout histo
steven lamb is an internist in new york city. he describes the hangover as a perfect cocktail of dehydration, low blood sugar, sleep disruption, and even mental instability. >> people have to appreciate you're dealing with an extremely toxic substance. >> reporter: to dr. lamb, hangovers are no joke. but try telling that to hollywood. in the nutty professor, jerry lewis was assault by his hangover headache. and 2009 the hangover was a box office smash. >> do not go to the...
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the co-curator of the exhibit discovered the first landis portrait while serving at the oklahoma city museum of art in 2008. >> i was outraged. i felt duped. and i felt like i needed to let as many people know about this character as i could. >> osgood: he spread the alarm all right. he found that landis had offered over 100 works to at least 50 institutions in 20 states over 30 years. as matthew demonstrated for us, the landis forgery technique is be trayed under ultraviolent light. those white areas reveal the spots landis failed to color in sufficiently. >> i don't believe he is a bad guy. he hasn't done anything criminal other than wasting people's time. i believe that he truly feels what he is doing is honoring his parents and placing pretty pictures into institutions. >> osgood: for any other museum that might be offered a pretty picture, matthew has three words of advice. exercise due diligence. >> osgood: ahead, zac efron. a long way from high school. and later,. >> do you want to.... >> osgood: it is rocket science. ,,,, it's oysternomics 101. ,,,, you start with a u.s. senat
the co-curator of the exhibit discovered the first landis portrait while serving at the oklahoma city museum of art in 2008. >> i was outraged. i felt duped. and i felt like i needed to let as many people know about this character as i could. >> osgood: he spread the alarm all right. he found that landis had offered over 100 works to at least 50 institutions in 20 states over 30 years. as matthew demonstrated for us, the landis forgery technique is be trayed under ultraviolent...
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co a tradition that is out of mexico and west texas tobacco cowboy style and make a case for kansas city has a very distinctive barbecue style as does kentucky which serves mutton and you can make a case that california has its own style as well. >> geez, we have almost as many barbecue styles as area codes. >> just about, we are getting there. >> and then there is the matter of sauce. >> we never saw, red sauce in texas and kansas city. >> mahogany color. >> there is only one place you will find white barbecue sauce, that is in northern alabama. the sauce was invented in 1925 at big bob gibson's barbecue. >> ken hass is the restaurant's manager. >> it is a mayonnaise based sauce with vinegar, black pepper, and a bunch of secrets i am not allowed to tell you. >> but according to moss, all those different styles and sauces date only to the turn of the 20th century. when barbecue moved from the pit to the restaurant. >> the very first mcdonald's served barbecue, before they went to burger and fries route. >> of course there is still places that cook in pits the old-fashioned way like scott
co a tradition that is out of mexico and west texas tobacco cowboy style and make a case for kansas city has a very distinctive barbecue style as does kentucky which serves mutton and you can make a case that california has its own style as well. >> geez, we have almost as many barbecue styles as area codes. >> just about, we are getting there. >> and then there is the matter of sauce. >> we never saw, red sauce in texas and kansas city. >> mahogany color. >>...
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right outside ocean city. so we're taping our windows. >> reporter: you're taking this very seriously. >> yes, we are. reporter: in delaware the governor ordered mandatory evacuations from coastal communities. in atlantic city, new jersey, officials plan to close the casinos and have ordered tourists and residents to leave town. new york officials worried that the subways could flood are considering shutting them down. but this storm is threatening much more than the coast. drenching rain, massive flooding, and even snowstorms are forecast all the way to the great lakes. about 64 million people are potentially in the storm's path. more than one in five americans. here in ocean city, maryland, the mayor is warning that severe flooding is likely. he's told people in low-lying areas especially in the south part of the city to prepare to evacuate. charlie. >> osgood: chip reid, thank you. as for the latest on the storm's path we go to hurricane watcher meteorologist david bernard at our cbs miami station, w.f.o.r.
right outside ocean city. so we're taping our windows. >> reporter: you're taking this very seriously. >> yes, we are. reporter: in delaware the governor ordered mandatory evacuations from coastal communities. in atlantic city, new jersey, officials plan to close the casinos and have ordered tourists and residents to leave town. new york officials worried that the subways could flood are considering shutting them down. but this storm is threatening much more than the coast....
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, the dreaded chick flick was doa while theselves may not be as crammed with stories of sex in the city, the best alive. >> the genre at its best and darker fare. >> in these girls by sarah peck than three girls come to new york city, two of them are chasing magazine careers one is running from demons back home, the detailed story the ladies bond, struggle with secrets, nasty internet comments and happy endings that may or may not involved mr. right. stacey's off the menu has a classic chick list figure the boss from hell at the center. >> she will do anything for her chair irsmatic to the detriment of her personal life but when she meets a hot southerner, the b word, balance comes into play, as ballis serves a modern tale of a woman trying to have it all with wit and style. disgruntled by committee. gillian madoff i couldn't love you more considers the darker side of the choices we make and their consequences. elliott gordon has what a lot of want, a loving partner, a daughter she adores, stepdaughters, sisters, a busy and fulfilling life then and old flame shows up and when the kids a
, the dreaded chick flick was doa while theselves may not be as crammed with stories of sex in the city, the best alive. >> the genre at its best and darker fare. >> in these girls by sarah peck than three girls come to new york city, two of them are chasing magazine careers one is running from demons back home, the detailed story the ladies bond, struggle with secrets, nasty internet comments and happy endings that may or may not involved mr. right. stacey's off the menu has a...
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rodney king, won a $3.8 million settlement from the city. most of it gone, and he just published a new memoir. and for south los angeles as the neighborhood is now known. poverty and unemployment both remain high. the crime is down. police are for more representative of the community that they serve. ahead, between the covers. >> charles: we've uncovered artifacts from the recent past. they're the covers we might have seen in the new yorker. not high catching competition. mo rocca has been sorting through the archives. >> you can't judge a book or a magazine by its cover, but you can certainly judge the covers themselves. and for decades after the february 1925 debut issue, the new yorker magazine's kofrps projected a sophistication befitting the literary pedigree. amusing. ironic. sometimes iconic, like sal steinberg's view of the world from new york city. and heene bucolic, an escape from the worries of the world. then in 1993 francois mullee make our editor. >> and then this -- >> this was the beginning. don't talk about it basically, and
rodney king, won a $3.8 million settlement from the city. most of it gone, and he just published a new memoir. and for south los angeles as the neighborhood is now known. poverty and unemployment both remain high. the crime is down. police are for more representative of the community that they serve. ahead, between the covers. >> charles: we've uncovered artifacts from the recent past. they're the covers we might have seen in the new yorker. not high catching competition. mo rocca has...
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the son of a new york city accordion player, hamlisch mastered the piano at an early age, met barbra streisand in the period of funny girl in 1963. and in the 1973 he wrote the music for the movie song that became her first number one album. the way we were. ♪ memories, like the corners of my mind. >> hamlisch relived the creation of that song in a 1986 cbs news interview with correspondent forest sawyer. >> once i got the feel of the song then it is a question of hopefully writing it, writing a terrific melody and if you write for barb tra streisand you are so enthused about writing for her the melody comes so on top of that feel comes the melody. >> osgood: many more melodies were to follow. it was marvin hamlisch who adopted scott joplin's ragtime to form the oscar-winning soundtrack for the movie the sting. >> talk about an entertainer. >> and in 1975, hallish created the music for the broadway musical about the making of the broadway musical. the chorus line. >> one. singular -- >> the chorus line enjoyed what was then a record run of 6,137 performances. hamlisch won a tony an
the son of a new york city accordion player, hamlisch mastered the piano at an early age, met barbra streisand in the period of funny girl in 1963. and in the 1973 he wrote the music for the movie song that became her first number one album. the way we were. ♪ memories, like the corners of my mind. >> hamlisch relived the creation of that song in a 1986 cbs news interview with correspondent forest sawyer. >> once i got the feel of the song then it is a question of hopefully...
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an industrial city in china is becoming a high-tech hub in under four years. britain's building a smart grid to help cut emissions by 80%. even an independent studio in malaysia can produce big-time blockbusters. transforming business through the cloud. that's what i'm working on. i'm an ibmer. let's build a smarter planet. ♪ time to jump in to something new ♪ ♪ ♪ the best part of wakin' up ♪ is folgers in your cup and having an investment expert like northern trust by your side makes all the difference. we add precision to your portfolio construction by directly matching your assets and your risk preferences against your own unique life goals. we call it goals driven investing. after all, you don't climb a mountain just to sit at the top. you look around for other mountains to climb. ♪ expertise matters. find it at northern trust. >> osgood: this dragon fly replica may look larger than life. but actually it is true to the dimensions of its fossil remains. in fact there's no creature too big for the ozark craftsman who made this model. faith saily
an industrial city in china is becoming a high-tech hub in under four years. britain's building a smart grid to help cut emissions by 80%. even an independent studio in malaysia can produce big-time blockbusters. transforming business through the cloud. that's what i'm working on. i'm an ibmer. let's build a smarter planet. ♪ time to jump in to something new ♪ ♪ ♪ the best part of wakin' up ♪ is folgers in your cup and having an investment expert like northern trust by your side makes...
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in an average year 16 million babies are born in china, enough to fill two new york cities. but now maternity wards are even more crowded than normal since the number of new borns is set to rise 5% in 2012. plus one more for me. china's baby care industry is already growing about 20% a year. already growing about 20% a year. with the added boost from china's mad rush to reproduce. trusted american brands dominate the market. and that's due to the loyalty of new parents like beijing mom. her ten month old daughter is experiencing an all-american childhood. wearing hugees, eating gerber rice cereal, and learning to walk with fisher price. china's food contamination scandals really worried us so we buy foreign brands, she says. tainted chinese milk powder killed six infants back in 2008, sickening 300,000 others. so now safety is the driving force for parents seeking american products. and that's where san francisco native larry comes in. in 1999 he realized there was a hole in the chinese market for american staples like strollers and educational toys. now he own a chain of 20
in an average year 16 million babies are born in china, enough to fill two new york cities. but now maternity wards are even more crowded than normal since the number of new borns is set to rise 5% in 2012. plus one more for me. china's baby care industry is already growing about 20% a year. already growing about 20% a year. with the added boost from china's mad rush to reproduce. trusted american brands dominate the market. and that's due to the loyalty of new parents like beijing mom. her ten...
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actor ben gazari has died at a hospice in new york city. he played the alcoholic son and failed football star in cat on a hot tin roof and was a two-time emmy nominee in the television series run for your life. he was 81. most of us can expect cool air and at least some sunny skies. southeast can expect a few storms. the week ahead, we'll get off to a mild, wet start before turning colder. next, hazing. can it be stopped? and later, a different take on the woman who,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: hazing is on no college or university's official curriculum yet hazing does occur with regulate on a number of campuses. when things go wrong it ends up in tragedy and headlines. our cover story is reported now by tracy smith. >> reporter: it was a half-time show worthy of the super bowl, when florida and and... legendary band took the field for a college football game last november. just hours later, 26-year-old drum major robert champion lay dying in the band's bus. brutally beaten in an alleged hazing ritual. >> is he breathing? >> i have no idea.
actor ben gazari has died at a hospice in new york city. he played the alcoholic son and failed football star in cat on a hot tin roof and was a two-time emmy nominee in the television series run for your life. he was 81. most of us can expect cool air and at least some sunny skies. southeast can expect a few storms. the week ahead, we'll get off to a mild, wet start before turning colder. next, hazing. can it be stopped? and later, a different take on the woman who,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>...
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despite the controversial cancellation late friday of the new york city marathon which was set for today. >> there are other things that are more pressing than a marathon. >> everybody is forgetting about us. >> reporter: 90% of the new york subway system is expected to be running today. and lights are on in most of manhattan. yet in tom's river, new jersey, frank and anita donnelly are are enduring their seventh day without electricity or hot water. >> i see a lot of this happening in different parts of the country. i think, oh, they'll make it. until it happens to you and it takes everything out of you. >> reporter: in neighborhoods like this one hard hit by the storm, you either have people who are now displaced from their homes in shelters or they're in damaged homes trying to ride this out with no electricity and no heat. that is getting harder by the day because temperatures at night are now falling into the low 30s. of course there's an election coming on tuesday. the state of new jersey just announced that some of those people who are displaced by the storm can vote by email. cha
despite the controversial cancellation late friday of the new york city marathon which was set for today. >> there are other things that are more pressing than a marathon. >> everybody is forgetting about us. >> reporter: 90% of the new york subway system is expected to be running today. and lights are on in most of manhattan. yet in tom's river, new jersey, frank and anita donnelly are are enduring their seventh day without electricity or hot water. >> i see a lot of...
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born in atlantic city in 1921, woodland learned morse code as a boy scout. years later in engineering school he and a classmate bernard silver worked to devise a graphic version of the code. one that could be used to track product information. the result was this. a sort of bulls eye with lines of varying widths, and in 1952 they pat ented what they called a classifying apparatus and method. ahead of out time, the idea languished and they sold the patent to philco for $15,000, all they ever made for their invention. wood land went onto work for ibm where in the early 1970s a colleague named george lowerer designed the retack language bar code we know today. last year wood land's daughter was there for his induction into the inventors hall of fame, he died last sunday at the age of 91. but his genius lives on, every time you hear this, take a moment to thank norman joseph woodland, for your speedy check out. coming up, once again. ,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: in the aftermath of friday's shootings in newtown, connecticut we can now add the name adam lanza to the gal
born in atlantic city in 1921, woodland learned morse code as a boy scout. years later in engineering school he and a classmate bernard silver worked to devise a graphic version of the code. one that could be used to track product information. the result was this. a sort of bulls eye with lines of varying widths, and in 1952 they pat ented what they called a classifying apparatus and method. ahead of out time, the idea languished and they sold the patent to philco for $15,000, all they ever...
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robert lee, miranda's love interest in the final season of sex in the city. at 47 along with acting, underwood produces, writes and even has a line of clothing coming out. >> you know, it's hard to stay looking fresh. why i haven't even washed or powdered my face and here you are.... >> reporter: there's no getting around the fact that a lot of the interest in him, even in streetcar, stems from his very good looks. do you think that this heart throb thing over the years has worked to your advantage or has it been something where you've had to convince people that there's more to you than a very handsome man? >> that's a trick question when you word it like that. i will say this. when people perceive you a certain way, ultimately it's a beautiful thing. i mean the up side, trust me, far outweighs the down side. i'll take the up side any day. then, you know, when something like this comes along you can use that and still have the color and depth of the character stuff that you like to work with as an actor. >> reporter: he knows that his performance in streetca
robert lee, miranda's love interest in the final season of sex in the city. at 47 along with acting, underwood produces, writes and even has a line of clothing coming out. >> you know, it's hard to stay looking fresh. why i haven't even washed or powdered my face and here you are.... >> reporter: there's no getting around the fact that a lot of the interest in him, even in streetcar, stems from his very good looks. do you think that this heart throb thing over the years has worked...
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i worked for the city. herbie worked for the government. we liked the idea that the gallery was free. >> reporter: when herb and dorothy stroll around the national gallery, they are accompanied by a curator or two, a far cry from the time 32 years ago when this son of a sweat shop worker and his blushing bride honeymooned at the national gallery. herb gave dorothy her first art history lesson there. years before that he had arranged his own life so he could take art courses and hang around painters as much as possible. >> i used to work the night shift and get two hours sleep. i would go to a lot of important lectures. i did it all by myself. nobody told me to do so. i stayed with the artist, learned what they told me. i still remember their generosity. they could have just said, who is this guy? >> reporter: one of the close friends the vogels made in the early days was a struggling artist named robert mangold. today he's at the top of his profession. his work on display at top ranked galleries around the he's no longer the same as when th
i worked for the city. herbie worked for the government. we liked the idea that the gallery was free. >> reporter: when herb and dorothy stroll around the national gallery, they are accompanied by a curator or two, a far cry from the time 32 years ago when this son of a sweat shop worker and his blushing bride honeymooned at the national gallery. herb gave dorothy her first art history lesson there. years before that he had arranged his own life so he could take art courses and hang...
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in new york city by 30%. >> no one can really explain exactly why. the changing nature of the economy, changing drug use patterns, more target the policing. >> reporter: michael jacobson. >> one of the things we know going forward if we want to continue and drive down crime even further is that increasing the size of our prison systems will not get you there. >> reporter: in 2009, the number of inmates in state prisons declined by just under 5,000. it was the first drop in nearly 40 years since 1972. was it merely a drop in the bucket or the beginning of the end of our epidemic of incarceration? >> charles: next the avon. up close and personal. the a bomb up close and personal. i absolutely love building locomotives. i knew i wanted to design locomotives from when i was very young. [ jahmil ] from the outside it looks like such a simple device. when you actually get down into the bare bones of it, there's so much technology that's submerged. [ rob ] my welds are a signature, i could tell my welds apart from anybody's. you lay down that nice bead and
in new york city by 30%. >> no one can really explain exactly why. the changing nature of the economy, changing drug use patterns, more target the policing. >> reporter: michael jacobson. >> one of the things we know going forward if we want to continue and drive down crime even further is that increasing the size of our prison systems will not get you there. >> reporter: in 2009, the number of inmates in state prisons declined by just under 5,000. it was the first drop...
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its teams of unarmed observers are now holed up in hotels in damascus and other cities. the u.n. says their work had become too dangerous. after the announcement syrian government troops reportedly launched a new round of attacks on rebel-held areas. voting in egypt's presidential election continues today. the race to replace now imprisoned and very ill former president hospital knee hugh bar he can pits mubarak's last prime minister against a conservative islamist candidate. greek voters go to the polls in an election that could determine its future with the eurozone. the left wing party says it will walk away from tough austerity measures blaming them for plunging the greek into recession. the financial implications of such a move have put banks in new york and london on weekend alert. we'll have more on both elections later on sunday morning. a rocket carrying a crew of three blasted off from a site in the gobi desert yesterday. their space capsule will dock with a small module where they will live and work for ten days. the high park fire continues to burn in northern colorad
its teams of unarmed observers are now holed up in hotels in damascus and other cities. the u.n. says their work had become too dangerous. after the announcement syrian government troops reportedly launched a new round of attacks on rebel-held areas. voting in egypt's presidential election continues today. the race to replace now imprisoned and very ill former president hospital knee hugh bar he can pits mubarak's last prime minister against a conservative islamist candidate. greek voters go to...
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but cracking down on the pigeon problem has be fuddled many city administrators. this man is the latest. "a system was installed to emit very high pitch sounds that terrorize the birds," he told us. we're thinking of forced sterilization. but the easiest thing is to just stop feeding them. today venice has ban the sale of feed in the square. but it's hard to stop tourists from sharing their lunch. and it's easy to find folks still selling feed in plain sight. "this happens everywhere," he told us. it's like having random people walking around the square selling dope or cocaine. here they're selling pigeon food. at one point licenses to legally sell feed meant big money for the city and vendors who traded them on the black market for half a million dollars. but not anymore. why have city governments in venice for so long had such a difficult time cracking down on the pigeon problem? >> the fact that it amuses tourists. tourists are a major source of income for venice. they didn't want to upset the balance. >> everyday she goes can i go feed the birds again. >> this
but cracking down on the pigeon problem has be fuddled many city administrators. this man is the latest. "a system was installed to emit very high pitch sounds that terrorize the birds," he told us. we're thinking of forced sterilization. but the easiest thing is to just stop feeding them. today venice has ban the sale of feed in the square. but it's hard to stop tourists from sharing their lunch. and it's easy to find folks still selling feed in plain sight. "this happens...
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plaguing a park, an enormous former landfill on statten island the city is restoring. the experiment, to see if the goats will eat their way through two acres of this stuff. >> the goat eats about 20% of its body weight a day. >> reporter: that's what? that's 65, 70-bound goat. that goat will eat 15 to 20 pounds of fd a day. we have 20 goats. the objective was to do it in six weeks. >> reporter: it turns out they love this weed. six weeks later, success. >> this is how this thing actually grows. >> reporter: wow. that is one long line. now kudzu was actually brought here deliberately. >> it was touted, sad to say, about u.s.d.a., about 100 years ago as being the next miracle plant. it was brought over from asia, planted along the embankments of railroads. >> reporter: this man is a weed scientist with the u.s. department of agriculture. >> and somewhere along the way in the post world war ii era it kind of got out of hand. >> reporter: boy, did it! it's about eight million acres of it now in the united states. >> reporter: really? yep. reporter: there's so much of it,
plaguing a park, an enormous former landfill on statten island the city is restoring. the experiment, to see if the goats will eat their way through two acres of this stuff. >> the goat eats about 20% of its body weight a day. >> reporter: that's what? that's 65, 70-bound goat. that goat will eat 15 to 20 pounds of fd a day. we have 20 goats. the objective was to do it in six weeks. >> reporter: it turns out they love this weed. six weeks later, success. >> this is how...